Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The more you know, the more you see
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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